Comments on: Right Brain vs. Left Brain

By: Hank

Hank — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:48:43 +0000

Very interesting. Im a computer tech and Im having some depression problems. Thing is Im trying to look for more information on how my brain works. As a tech I can´t afford to loose my skills. I would like to recieve more info. Thank you.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:23:53 +0000

I am finding that the older adults that I lead in Tai Chi have a great deal of trouble doing any crossbody movements It appears that we may become more brain one-side as we grow older unless we use both sides on a regular basis,

By: shaina

shaina — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:12:52 +0000

I agree with the assessment thing. Right brained talents and skills do need to be more honoured and recognised. Usually the creative kids are dismissed by teachers as being overly imaginative and unconventional.

By: HAPPYneuron

HAPPYneuron — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:50:16 +0000

It is fun to try and determine what side you use more. There is an interesting test here: http://www.perthnow.com.au/fun-games/left-brain-vs-right-brain/story-e6frg46u-1111114517613?from=mostpop that involves staring at a dancer. Supposedly you can determine what side you use based on the way you see it spin.

By: AFFUL GRAHAM

AFFUL GRAHAM — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:36:19 +0000

I was very good at all subject and only rely on what the teacher teaches without doing further researches during my primary education. When i got to the high school, i relised i’m better in Art,Maths and maths oriented subjects than in those which involved much reading only because i feel bored to read.
I’m now in a college reading nursing. I’m being forced to read since all the courses offered require much reading and i’m doing well in these courses.
With this i’m believing i’m a whole-brained person only that i was not training one half very well.

In conclusion, a right brained individual can train the other half to function, if not equally, to greater extent and vice versa.

By: claire

claire — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:47:14 +0000

my friend writes songs. He told me this yesterday. My music is poetry. Poetry is art. and poetry and art are all love. I think that most of these comments by right brainers are opinions. Although I do feel that u can be more dominant on a single side of your brain.
But that doesn’t mean you’re not able to excel in other things too!

I’m a seventh grader and I agree that the many teachers might hear about this and decide to put it to the side. And not deal with it, its wrong! But it just depends on the teacher him/her self. That doesn’t mean the school system is whacked
I can’t say I really know exactly what the system considers and thinks about, but I don’t think much is going to change.

My dad always says to me,
If we don’t like the rules we WORK to get them changed but until we get them changed, we FOLLOW the rules.

So no one out there who seems to be right brained, read this and decide that they’re not worth it! Because you are!!

We as human beings were created all unique. And WONDERFULLY unique at that.
So stand up! Believe in yourself! And do what u do best! Excel in what u can! And try ur best at the things that might not come as easy for you.

We are all unique.
We can all accomplish a world of possibilities.
With a little effort. )

By: kv5r

kv5r — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:27:34 +0000

I am by no means an expert on this subject, but I think (note that I didn’t say, “feel”) that dividing left-right brain activity into distinct elements is a mistake. Like breaking down complex food molecules into chemical elements in a gas chromatograph, it fosters the simplistic eighteenth-century notion that complex systems can be analyzed by reduction.

Take Pavlov, for example. The man spent his life’s work operating under the simplistic assumption that responses to stimuli are pre-programmed. Nonsense! My dog will salivate at 6:00 PM sharp because that’s when I feed him — yet he also displays his intelligence and creativity (and humor) just because it amuses him to do so. And if so for the dog, how much more so for the human!

The individual personality is a complex mixture of left-right brain activity, and while some are more dominant in one or the other, I think it is a mistake to categorize them as one or the other. Indeed, as a web designer and developer, I find myself more creative on some days, and more analytical on others.

I certainly agree that modern education should be more balanced in regard to development of both analytical and creative processes.

Exercise: youtube search Tommy Johnson and watch trillions of neurons firing per second in a pleasing way! I’ll wager that he is not concerned with the exact frequencies and waveforms that his synthesizers are producing, yet he is still both technical and artistic!

By: Gordie

Gordie — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:07:48 +0000

I am a right brained person, and things like this help me better understand how things work.

When I was in high school I would be most likely to be doing somthing hands on such as: wood working , music , art. and i would find verbal lectures and demonstrations to be more helpful rather than reading or doing it on my own.

By: Sheraz

Sheraz — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:12:35 +0000

Dont exactly know what to write after reading all the DEBATE about LEFT or RIGHT or BOTH.

I think it upto a person because when one do something that is of his interest at that time one is using the whole of the energy to perform that act and if that work is not of interest then people fail to perform.

Someone told me life is a mixture of all Logic & emotions mixed to take it all the way and logically that true.

So logically speaking we all are full brain users provided te right environment.

By: Frank ie

Frank ie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:11:55 +0000

Thank you Juliah, you are one of the few people to understand true math and science.
People fail to see these are actually one of the few areas,of study which incorporate ALL sides of the brain. Philosophy and art one fifth of the time don’t even use the left brain, they like to think they are. People are brought up to think left is cool and individual, less gay, so they do things and like things that are stereotypically right brained.
Math and science are as, if not more, creative and beautiful as art and philosophy. Look at the greatest artists and philosophers, you will be surprised as to how many of them were also mathematicians.